Giving to the Faculty of Law
The Faculty of Law is the largest in the United Kingdom, and includes many of the world's leading legal scholars. We train lawyers in tutorials as well as lectures and seminars, and no other law school in the world offers such close contact between teacher and student. The BCL (for students trained in the common law) and MJur (for students trained in the civil law) are the most demanding and most rewarding graduate law degrees in the world. The new Master's in Law and Finance has made Oxford the leading centre for education in the interplay between law and corporate finance. And Oxford has the world's strongest doctoral programme in law.
These strengths are built on a brilliant student body, on the Faculty's long-established core strengths in English public and private law and the philosophy of law, and on newly developed groups in comparative law, international law, law and finance, and European law. Our historic connection with the Roman tradition has been reborn in our collaborations with continental European universities. And specialist centres in criminology and socio-legal studies mean that Oxford is now unsurpassed as a place for interdisciplinary work on the law and its role in society.
No one could invent a law faculty like this today. To make it thrive in the twenty-first century, we need to reinvent it, as a partnership between the University, the professions, and Oxford alumni around the world. Those alumni include judges in the United Kingdom Supreme Court (six of eleven Justices of the Court studied at Oxford), the United States Supreme Court, the Australian High Court, the German Bundesgerichtshof, the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights. The alumni include more than 120 law professors in more than 70 universities worldwide, and leading personalities in every branch of the legal profession in more than 60 countries. We need the support of these friends, in particular, to fund the recruitment of the strongest scholars and scholarships for the most gifted students. We aim to build and to improve a remarkable community of legal scholars, students and future leaders.